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Virunga National Park Coffees
Farm Africa is working with the Virunga National Park to unleash the potential of two coffee cooperatives and boost the livelihoods of over 7,000 coffee farming families living on the border of Virunga National Park, reducing pressure on the park’s resources and lifting people out of poverty.
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DR Congo
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Ethiopia
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Promoting fuel-saving stoves
This booklet is one of a series of seven focusing on the key components of the five-year Improving Smallholder Livelihoods through Climate-Smart Agricultural Economic Development project. Funded by Irish Aid, and implemented by a consortium of SOS Sahel Ethiopia, Self Help Africa, Vita and Farm Africa, the project aimed to alleviate poverty and build resilient, sustainable livelihoods in Ethiopia’s SNNP and Oromia regions.
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Ethiopia
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Uganda
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Sustainable coffee production in Kanungu, Uganda
Factsheet on sustainable coffee production in Kanungu, Uganda, which explores how by working in a sustainable way, smallholder farmers can generate good yields of high-quality coffee that fetch a good price for many generations to come. Farm Africa’s coffee project in Kanungu was co-funded by the European Union.
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Uganda
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Ethiopia
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Producing and marketing forest products: success stories
Poverty drives deforestation in Ethiopia’s Benishangul Gumuz Region. Farm Africa is supporting forest users to sustainably profit from forests’ resources. This publication presents stories that look at how people and forests can thrive together.
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Ethiopia
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Ethiopia
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Building and unleashing community power
This booklet presents a series of case studies from the UK aid-funded Market Approaches to Resilience project, which aimed to reduce the vulnerability of agro-pastoralists and protect the environment in Ethiopia’s Afar, Somali and SNNP regional states.
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Ethiopia
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DR Congo
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An overview of Farm Africa’s approach to the environment
The preservation of natural resources is critical to poverty reduction, global food security and climate change mitigation. Farm Africa promotes environmental activities that that bring farmers, governments and other stakeholders together to earn an income from and protect the environment.
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DR Congo
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DR Congo
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An overview of Farm Africa’s approach to agriculture
Reducing poverty in rural Africa depends on making agriculture work better. Farm Africa’s approach to improving agricultural production focuses on helping farmers harness the power of technological advances, pioneering the use of climate-smart agriculture and better managing the natural resources farmers rely upon.
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DR Congo
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Reducing deforestation and emissions in Bale – What’s the incentive for local communities?
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Ethiopia
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Reducing deforestation and emissions in Bale – What’s the incentive for local communities?
This report presents evidence of how 12,496 hectares of forest in the Bale Eco-region were saved between 2012 and 2015 following the establishment of a REDD+ initiative. The reduced deforestation stopped 5.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere.
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Ethiopia
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DR Congo
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Farm Africa’s approach to participatory forest management
Farm Africa’s approach to forming formalised forest management agreements between local communities and governments that simultaneously promote resource management and enterprise development.
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DR Congo
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DR Congo
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Farm Africa’s approach to climate-smart agriculture
A summary of Farm Africa’s approach to building the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate shocks and trends and minimising their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.
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DR Congo
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DR Congo
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Farm Africa’s approach to land, water and environment
A summary of Farm Africa’s approach to increasing the sustainability of smallholder and agribusiness production, with a focus on conservation of essential biodiversity, woodlots and watersheds.
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DR Congo
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DR Congo
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Farm Africa’s approach to integrated landscape management
A summary of Farm Africa’s approach to the holistic management of rural landscapes, so that gains from development in one region are not cancelled out by losses in another.
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DR Congo
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DR Congo
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Farm Africa’s approach to participatory rangeland management
Farm Africa’s approach to helping pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities build economically, socially and environmentally sustainable rangeland management systems.
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DR Congo
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Ethiopia
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Marketing Bale’s wild coffee
Factsheet on Farm Africa’s Marketing Bale’s wild coffee project. The project helped wild coffee farmers in Ethiopia’s Bale Eco-region develop production, processing and trading systems that enabled them to sell to speciality coffee markets.
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Ethiopia
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Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part one: Integrated watershed management.
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Ethiopia
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Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part one: Integrated watershed management.
Back in the early 1990s Tigray was barren, without the lush green grasses and vegetarian visible today. Over the last 20 years, Farm Africa has deployed its expertise in watershed management to help the local community rehabilitate the ecosystem that underpins local communities’ livelihoods.
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Ethiopia
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Increase food security and nutrition
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DR Congo
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Act on climate change
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Boost youth employment
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Empower women
Increase access to finance
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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Support businesses
Farm Africa strategic plan 2016-2020
Farm Africa is a leading NGO specialising in growing agriculture, protecting the environment and developing businesses in rural Africa. Our strategic plan for the years 2016-2020 outlines our ambitious plan to grow and unlock the potential of agriculture to transform rural Africa.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Boost youth employment
Connect farmers to markets
Empower women
Increase access to finance
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Strengthen food systems
Support businesses
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Boost youth employment
Connect farmers to markets
Empower women
Increase access to finance
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Strengthen food systems
Support businesses
Transforming rural Africa: strategic plan 2016-2020
Effective agriculture has the power to change lives. Farm Africa has an ambitious strategy for the next five years to expand our work, increase our impact and make change happen.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Boost youth employment
Connect farmers to markets
Empower women
Increase access to finance
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Strengthen food systems
Support businesses
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Protect ecosystems
Fish farming and the environment
More intensive fish farming can have serious environmental consequences. This report, produced by Golder Associates, provides a framework for the aquaculture industry to be transformed in a climate-sensitive way.
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